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Jayaramaiah, Karagada M.; And Others – 1972
A study was conducted to identify, examine and suggest a set of broad principles effective in the development of 4-H club programs in the United States and Tennessee. Eighty principles of successful 4-H Club work gleaned from related literature were tested in terms of: their acceptance as principles by two panels of experts; panel agreement to the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Extension Agents, Guides, Interviews
Haines, Jenny M.; And Others – 1985
This study analyzes the cost effectiveness of a telephone survey, using data collected from a survey of 110 Tennessee public school superintendents. The subject of the survey was the status and need for elementary guidance. A telephone survey approach was selected based on time and cost factors, since information had to be completed in the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection
McGatha, Maggie; Bush, William S.; Thorn, Dustin – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), 2005
This study describes (a) potential mathematics education leaders' professional development experiences, awareness, beliefs, and attitudes and (b) the subsequent changes in these constructs as they participated in a leadership development program. The context of the professional development was a three-week institute and a year-long follow-up. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Elementary Secondary Education, Statistical Significance, Mathematics Education
Jordan, Jimmie L. – 1973
This report of an exploratory study of Adult Basic Education (ABE) gives a brief summary of background and methodology and represents findings about students and teachers in Shelby County, Tennessee. For the students 41 findings are reported relating to age, sex, race, marital status, years of schooling completed, employment, income, life style,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Data Collection, Educational Attitudes, Educational Research
Rush, Donald E.; Fifer, Fred L. – 1973
The impact which program evaluation and subsequent short-term in-service education efforts had upon the curricular programs of two distinctly different school settings was assessed. In addition, the appropriateness of the Kunkel-McElhinney model of curriculum evaluation, as perceived by professional school personnel, was examined and assessed. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Furtwengler, Carol; And Others – 1986
The Tennessee Career Ladder Program is a statewide evaluation system designed to pay teachers for teaching well. The system is based on a set of objectives called Domains of Competence, which are subdivided into Indicators. Early in the design of the system, it was decided to use multiple data sources, including a variety of instruments, to assess…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Brown, Edward B.; Dutton, Donnie – 1972
Three 2-week Adult Basic Education (ABE) Institutes were conducted in Tennessee during the summer of 1972. The three were an ABE Guidance and Counseling Institute, an ABE Materials and Teaching Institute, and an ABE Reading Institute. Each institute consisted of approximately 30 participants from the various regions of the state, and graduate…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Credit Courses, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods